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My website is about an IT topic, in which I have some expertise. I started this website, just because I knew about the topic and started to write about it.
So, everything started just for promotion. I already had adwords account, because I was promoting some affiliate sites, some very tiny ones. Then I decided to create a campaign to promote this new website, and throw like $5 bucks a day out of my pocket. A month later, I signed for Adsense, so there was as point where I was running both, and the adsense earnings somehow compensated my adwords spending.
As time passes, the Adsense earnings overpassed my Adwords spending and somehow this resulted in a "business model" (please note the sarcastic use of quotes).
There were good times, in 2006, a peak, but then profits went down, and down, and down, mainly because the QS on adwords. I didn't care too much, because my website was good, and I was getting lots of free links from blogs and forums, so I was getting free organic visitors, and compensated the always increasing adwords costs.
At the beginning of this month, the Quality Score thing practically erased my campaigns by increasing 99% of my keywords to $10.00, and the only ones surviving were those 4 years old affiliate campaigns, which by the way, have all keywords in "great" quality.
Then, I had a few email interchange with an Adwords representative about this last event, and I'm quite sure this was the one that triggered a manual revision and got my adsense account down.
After these three years, my website grew a lot and it is somehow well known in its niche. I get like 500 visitors a day, free of charge, from the SERPS.
Also, there are like 150 people who regularly sent press releases for products related to this IT niche. I mention this so you have an idea, that I'm talking about a REAL website, with real people reading and getting help and useful information.
I know there are histories about people getting theirs accounts back, at least, I've read about 7 or 8 in this three years of reading webmasterworld every day. But those were cases about "invalid clicks", which turned to be a false statements, so, Google give them theirs accounts back.
So, the main reason to post this here, and ask this here publicly, is if you know cases from people getting the "your business model is not a good fit" that has appealed and get their adsense account back.
Now, I take double-shifts to compensate the lost income :(
